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L.A Is Burning · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 37 OF 66
Groove U -- Part U
100 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART U, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
4 groovesLHBUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play L.A Is Burning on drums

131 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-18, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32-34, and 20 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
L.A Is Burning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 21 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- L, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is L.A Is Burning?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is L.A Is Burning hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in L.A Is Burning?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 21 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED